RE: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
is so slow on my SCSI disc Sebastian Pahlke wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to clean a disc before selling them: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 You may want to consider using /dev/random instead of, or in combination with, /dev/zero. Zeroing out a disk isn't a significant barrier to forensic analysis

Re: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-23 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 8/23/05, Sebastian Pahlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to clean a disc before selling them: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 Do I make something wrong because the transfer rate is only 60932 bytes/sec??? These are 60 kbytes/sec, slower than my internet connection!!! :(

dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-22 Thread Sebastian Pahlke
Hi all, I'm trying to clean a disc before selling them: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 Do I make something wrong because the transfer rate is only 60932 bytes/sec??? These are 60 kbytes/sec, slower than my internet connection!!! :( I tried to increase the block size, with bs=32768 I get 3416071

Re: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-22 Thread Andrew P.
On 8/23/05, Sebastian Pahlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to clean a disc before selling them: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 Do I make something wrong because the transfer rate is only 60932 bytes/sec??? These are 60 kbytes/sec, slower than my internet connection!!! :(

Re: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 22. August 2005 22:13 CEST schrieb Sebastian Pahlke: Hi all, I'm trying to clean a disc before selling them: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 Do I make something wrong because the transfer rate is only 60932 bytes/sec??? These are 60 kbytes/sec, slower than my internet connection!!!

Re: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-22 Thread Danny MacMillan
Sebastian Pahlke wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to clean a disc before selling them: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 You may want to consider using /dev/random instead of, or in combination with, /dev/zero. Zeroing out a disk isn't a significant barrier to forensic analysis.

Re: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 20:57, Danny MacMillan wrote: Sebastian Pahlke wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to clean a disc before selling them: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 You may want to consider using /dev/random instead of, or in combination with, /dev/zero. Zeroing out a disk isn't a

Re: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 04:29 CEST schrieb Mike Jeays: On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 20:57, Danny MacMillan wrote: Sebastian Pahlke wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to clean a disc before selling them: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 You may want to consider using /dev/random instead of,